Orai Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
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Orai is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Orai in the Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[3]
| Orai | |
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| Constituency No. 221 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Jalaun |
| Total electors | 4,31,601 (2014) |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent [[Mr. Gauri Shankar Verma (Kori)[1]]] | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2022[2] |
Orai is one of five assembly constituencies in the Jalaun Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 221 amongst 403 constituencies.
Members of Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member[4] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Chaturbhuj Sharma | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | |||
| 1974 | Anand Swaroop | ||
| 1977 | Shyam Sundar | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Suresh Datt Paliwal | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Arvind Tiwari | Indian National Congress | |
| 1989 | Akbar Ali | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 1991 | Baburam M.Com | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1993 | Akbar Ali | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 1996 | Baburam M.Com | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | Vinod Chaturvedi | Indian National Congress | |
| 2012 | Dayashankar | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | Mr. Gauri Shankar Verma[1] | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | |||
Election results
2022
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Mr. Gauri Shankar Verma (Kori) won in 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Mr. Gauri Shankar Verma (Kori) | 128,644 | 47.45 | −5.53 | |
| SP | Dayashankar Verma | 90,996 | 33.56 | +10.32 | |
| BSP | Satyendra Pratap | 38,638 | 14.25 | −7.45 | |
| INC | Urmila Devi Sonkar Khabri | 4,650 | 1.72 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,682 | 0.62 | −0.2 | |
| Majority | 37,648 | 13.89 | −15.85 | ||
| Turnout | 271,107 | 60.93 | −1.61 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Mr. Gauri Shankar Verma(Kori) won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Mahendra Singh by a margin of 78,879 votes.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Mr. Gauri Shankar Verma (Kori) | 140,485 | 52.98 | ||
| SP | Mahendra Singh | 61,606 | 23.24 | ||
| BSP | Vijay Chaudhari | 57,541 | 21.7 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,169 | 0.82 | ||
| Majority | 78,879 | 29.74 | |||
| Turnout | 265,142 | 62.54 | |||